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Sears Roebuck de México is a department store
Department store

A department store is a retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant Merchandise#Product_line....
 chain located in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, operating more than 55 stores all over Mexico. Sears México is operated by Grupo Carso
Grupo Carso

Grupo Carso is a conglomerate of companies owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. It was formed in 1990 after the merge of Corporaci?n Industrial Carso and Grupo Inbursa....
.

ebruary 27, 1947, the first Sears in Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
 opened, revolutionizing the traditional systems of commercialization and massive exhibition of merchandise, establishing fixed and competitive price policies, instead of implementing the traditional bargaining system.

From 1955 to 1993, Sears opened stores throughout Mexico.

On April 2, 1997, Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears, Roebuck and Company

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an united States mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Roebuck in the late 19th century....
, now owned by Sears Holdings Corporation
Sears Holdings Corporation

Sears Holdings Corporation is the sixth largest retailer in the United States, trailing behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Costco, Target Corporation and Kroger....
, formed a strategic alliance with Grupo Carso
Grupo Carso

Grupo Carso is a conglomerate of companies owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. It was formed in 1990 after the merge of Corporaci?n Industrial Carso and Grupo Inbursa....
, owned by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helú
Carlos Slim Helú

Carlos Slim Hel? is a Mexico businessman and philanthropist who is largely focused on the telecommunications industry. He is currently the second List of billionaires with a net worth of around United States dollar60 billion through his holdings....
, through which Sears agreed to sell 60% of its share of Sears Mexico to Grupo Carso, until 1997.






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Sears Roebuck de México is a department store
Department store

A department store is a retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant Merchandise#Product_line....
 chain located in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, operating more than 55 stores all over Mexico. Sears México is operated by Grupo Carso
Grupo Carso

Grupo Carso is a conglomerate of companies owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. It was formed in 1990 after the merge of Corporaci?n Industrial Carso and Grupo Inbursa....
.

History

On February 27, 1947, the first Sears in Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
 opened, revolutionizing the traditional systems of commercialization and massive exhibition of merchandise, establishing fixed and competitive price policies, instead of implementing the traditional bargaining system.

From 1955 to 1993, Sears opened stores throughout Mexico.

On April 2, 1997, Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears, Roebuck and Company

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an united States mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Roebuck in the late 19th century....
, now owned by Sears Holdings Corporation
Sears Holdings Corporation

Sears Holdings Corporation is the sixth largest retailer in the United States, trailing behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Costco, Target Corporation and Kroger....
, formed a strategic alliance with Grupo Carso
Grupo Carso

Grupo Carso is a conglomerate of companies owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. It was formed in 1990 after the merge of Corporaci?n Industrial Carso and Grupo Inbursa....
, owned by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helú
Carlos Slim Helú

Carlos Slim Hel? is a Mexico businessman and philanthropist who is largely focused on the telecommunications industry. He is currently the second List of billionaires with a net worth of around United States dollar60 billion through his holdings....
, through which Sears agreed to sell 60% of its share of Sears Mexico to Grupo Carso, until 1997. As of 2007, Grupo Carso owned an 85% share of the company.

Locations


Northern Mexico

  • Aguascalientes
    Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes

    The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico. It stands on the banks of the R?o Aguascalientes, 1888 meters above sea level, at ....
  • Chihuahua
    Chihuahua, Chihuahua

    The city of Chihuahua is the state capital of the Mexican Mexican state of Chihuahua . It has a population of about 748,551. The predominant activity is light industry, in the form of maquiladoras....
     (4)
  • Ciudad Juárez
    Ciudad Juárez

    Ciudad Ju?rez, also known as just Ju?rez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the Ju?rez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua ....
  • Culiacán
    Culiacán

    Culiac?n is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiac?n....
     (2)
  • Durango
    Durango, Durango

    Durango, formally Victoria de Durango, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Durango. It stands at an altitude of .The city was founded in 1563....
  • Gómez Palacio
    Gómez Palacio

    G?mez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico in northeastern Durango , Mexico, located at 25.57?N, 103.50?W adjacent to the border with the state of Coahuila....
  • Hermosillo
    Hermosillo

    Hermosillo, formerly named Sant?sima Trinidad del Pitic is the largest city and capital of the Mexico States of Mexico of Sonora, and is located in the center of the state, 167 miles from the border with the United States....
  • Monterrey
    Monterrey

    Monterrey is the capital city of the northeastern Mexico state of Nuevo Le?n and a Monterrey of the same name. Also known as "Sultana del Norte" , Monterrey is an important industrial and business center....
     (5)
  • San Luis Potosí
    San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí

    San Luis Potos?, also called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of and most populous city in the Mexico Mexican state of San Luis Potos?....
     (2)
  • Tampico
    Tampico

    Tampico, located at , is the main city in the Mexico States of Mexico of Tamaulipas, and is the Mexican Gulf of Mexico's main economic powerhouse....
  • Torreón
    Torreón

    Torre?n is a city and seat of the Torre?n in the Mexico States of Mexico of Coahuila. As of 2005, the city's population was 548,723 with 577,477 in the municipality....


Central & Southern Mexico

  • Acapulco
    Acapulco

    Acapulco is a city and major port in the Political divisions of Mexico of Guerrero on the Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City....
  • Boca del Río
    Boca del Río, Veracruz

    Boca del R?o is a city in the Mexico States of Mexico of Veracruz. The city also serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....
  • Cancún
    Cancún

    Canc?n is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucat?n Peninsula. Cancun is located on the Yucatan Channel that separates Mexico from the island of Cuba in the Greater Antilles....
  • Celaya
    Celaya

    Celaya is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico in the state of Guanajuato , Mexico, located in the southeast quadrant of the state....
  • Coatzacoalcos
    Coatzacoalcos

    Coatzacoalcos is a major seaport city in the southern part of the Mexico States of Mexico of Veracruz, on the Coatzacoalcos River. Coatzacoalcos comes from an indigenous word meaning "Site of the Snake" or "Where the snake hides"....
  • Colima
    Colima, Colima

    Colima is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. This article is about the city. For the state, see: Colima. There is also the Colima ....
  • Córdoba
    Córdoba, Veracruz

    C?rdoba is a city and is the seat of the municipalities of Mexico of the same name in the Mexican state of Veracruz.The city is composed of 15 congregations, bounded to the north by Ixhuatl?n del Caf? and Tomatl?n, and its southern reaches borders with Amatl?n de los Reyes and Naranjal....
  • Cuernavaca
    Cuernavaca

    Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Morelos in Mexico. As of the 2005 census, the population of the city was 332,197; the municipality's entire population was 349,102 in an area of that includes numerous small localities outside the city, like Ocotepec, where interesting religious celebrations take place, like...
  • Ecatepec
    Ecatepec

    Ecatepec was an Aztec altepetl or city-state in the Valley of Mexico....
  • Gómez Palacio
    Gómez Palacio

    G?mez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico in northeastern Durango , Mexico, located at 25.57?N, 103.50?W adjacent to the border with the state of Coahuila....
  • Guadalajara
    Guadalajara, Jalisco

    Guadalajara is the capital city of the Mexico state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of the state and in the western-Pacific area of Mexico....
     (3)
  • Irapuato
    Irapuato, Guanajuato

    Irapuato is a Mexico city located at the foot of the Arandas mountain , in the south central region of the Mexican state of Guanajuato. It lies between the Silao River and the Guanajuato River, a tributary of the Lerma River, at 1,724 m above sea level....
  • León
    León, Guanajuato

    The city of Le?n, formally Le?n de los Aldama is the fifth most populous city in Mexico and the first in the Political divisions of Mexico of Guanajuato....
  • Mérida
    Mérida, Yucatán

    M?rida is the capital and largest city of the States of Mexico of Yucat?n and the Yucat?n Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 km from the Gulf of Mexico coast, at ....
     (3)
  • Mexico City
    Mexico City

    Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
     (13)
  • Minatitlán
    Minatitlán, Veracruz

    Minatitl?n is a city in the southeastern part of the Mexico States of Mexico of Veracruz, located on the railway and on Mexican Federal Highway....
  • Morelia
    Morelia

    Morelia is the capital of the Mexico States of Mexico of Michoac?n. The city is situated at an elevation of 1,921 meters above sea level in the region of the Guayangareo Valley, surrounded by the Punhuato and Quinceo Hills....
  • Oaxaca
    Oaxaca, Oaxaca

    The city of Oaxaca is the capital and largest city of the Mexico Oaxaca .It is located in the Valley of Oaxaca in the Sierra Madre del Sur Mountains, at near the geographic center of the state, and at an altitude of about 1550 m ....
  • Pachuca
    Pachuca

    Pachuca, formally Pachuca de Soto is the capital of the Mexico States of Mexico of Hidalgo . It is located in the south-central part of the state....
     (2,Original one in Plaza Fiesta, newer 3 level store in Plaza Q)
  • Puebla
    Puebla, Puebla

    The city of Puebla, officially Heroic Puebla de Zaragoza is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Puebla. The city has a population of 1,399,519 ....
     (2)
  • Santiago de Querétaro
    Santiago de Querétaro

    Quer?taro, formally Santiago de Quer?taro or "Quer?taro de Arteaga", is the capital and largest city of the Mexico States of Mexico of Quer?taro....
  • Torreón
    Torreón

    Torre?n is a city and seat of the Torre?n in the Mexico States of Mexico of Coahuila. As of 2005, the city's population was 548,723 with 577,477 in the municipality....
  • Tuxtla Gutiérrez
    Tuxtla Gutiérrez

    Tuxtla Guti?rrez is a municipality and the capital city of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the local public administration, the local authorities, and of the Federal government of the United Mexican States delegations in the state....
  • Veracruz
    Veracruz, Veracruz

    The city of Veracruz is a major port city and municipalities of Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexico States of Mexico of Veracruz. The metropolitan areas of Mexico is Mexico's largest on the Gulf coast and an important east coast port....
     (2)
  • Xalapa
    Xalapa

    Xalapa de Enr?quez, commonly Xalapa or Jalapa is the capital city of the Mexico States of Mexico of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality....
     (2)
  • Zapopan
    Zapopan

    Zapopan is the seat of the municipality of Zapopan in the Mexico state of Jalisco, and is part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. As of the 2005 census the population of the city was 1,026,492 inhabitants, that of its municipality 1,155,790....


Central America

  • Guatemala City
    Guatemala City

    Guatemala City is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the capital city of the local Guatemala and the largest city in Central America....
     (2)


Famous locations

  • One of Sears Mexico's most important locations is inside the World Trade Center
    World Trade Center México

    The World Trade Center M?xico is a building complex located in Mexico City, Mexico. Its most famous and recognizable feature is the 52-story, 207m high Torre WTC, the third tallest building in Mexico City , or fourth when measured by its 191m roof height....
     of Mexico City
    Mexico City

    Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
     which replaced an early J.C. Penney
    J.C. Penney

    J. C. Penney Company, Inc. is a mid-range chain of United States department stores based in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas, Texas. The company operates 1,093 department stores in 49 of the 50 U.S....
     store in Mexico.


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